Hacker currently working on formally verified hardware for security and privacy. Previous form in the areas of functional programming, domain-specific languages, compilers, custom hardware acceleration with FPGAs and ASICs, concurrency and parallelism, formal verification, configuration management, distributed systems, container orchestration, cloud computing and low level Android performance optimization. Ex-academic with experience of paper writing and obtaining research grants and a love of teaching. Professional duties include former ACM SIGPLAN executive committee member, IFIP WG2.8 and IFIP WG2.11 member and much experience of PCs and government grant award committees.